ERIK BIØRN

CURRICULUM VITAE

• Date and place of birth: May 4, 1944, in Oslo, Norway.
• Citizenship: Norwegian.
• Foreign languages: English (Fluent). French (Good), German (Good).
• Marital status: Single.
• Home address: Camilla Colletts vei 11A, 0258 Oslo, Norway.
• Non-professional interests: Classical Music: Piano playing, Chamber music., etc.

A. EDUCATION

• Exam. oecon., University of Oslo, 1967.
• Cand. oecon., University of Oslo, 1969.

B. PAST AND PRESENT POSITIONS: FULL-TIME

• Economist/Executive Officer, Statistics Norway, Research Department, 1970-1972.
• Research Fellow, Statistics Norway, Research Department, 1972-1975.
• Senior Research Fellow, Statistics Norway, Research Department, 1975-1983.
• Associate Professor of Economics, University of Oslo, 1983-1984.
• Senior Research Fellow, Statistics Norway, Research Department, 1984-1986.
• Professor of Economics, University of Oslo, 1986-.

C. PAST AND PRESENT POSITIONS: PART-TIME

• Part-time lecturer and thesis advisor, University of Oslo, 1970-1985.
• Scientific Adviser, and Senior Research Fellow, Statistics Norway, Research Department, 1986-2007.
• Affiliation to the Health Economics Research Programme, University of Oslo (HERO), 2000-2004.
• Administrator of full teaching schedule (all levels) of Department of Economics, University of Oslo, 2002-2004.
• Scientific adviser, The Frisch Center, University of Oslo, 2009-.

D. TEACHING AND SUPERVISION

• Courses
• Supervision of Doctoral and Master Students

E. RESEARCH AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Tax research (Head of Tax Research Unit of Statistics Norway): Tax incidence modelling and analysis, persons (direct and indirect taxation), Analysis of corporate income and capital taxation.
• Macro-econometric model building: MODIS (Statistics Norway, Annual model), KVARTS (Statistics Norway, Quarterly). Head of project unit for the KVARTS model, 1977-1983.
• Adviser of Statistics Norway in the following fields: Quarterly National Accounts, Capital Accounts in Annual National Accounts, Households budget surveys, etc.
• Econometric research on corporate investment in general and in relation to the measurement of capital stocks, of capital depreciation and of capital service prices, with links to corporate taxation.
• Econometric research on household consumption and saving, including durable goods.
• Econometric research in health economics: Addictive goods. Hospital financing, etc.
• Panel data econometrics: Unbalanced panel data. Measurement error models. Random coefficients. Limited dependent variables. Aggregation. Applied studies in panel data econometrics.
• Participation in research programme "Company and Capital Taxation" (the Norwegian Research Council).
• Participation in research programme "Environmental Regulation and Industrial Structure" (the Norwegian Research Council/European Community).
• Participation in "Health Economics Research Programme" of the University of Oslo (HERO).
• Participation in Research program at the Frisch Center "Absenteeism in Norway — Causes, Consequences, and Policy Implications" (the Norwegian Research Council)

F. PUBLICATIONS

• Publications in English
• Publications in Norwegian
• Working papers (all downloadable)

G. REFEREE OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

• Agricultural Economics
• Annales d'économie et de statistique
• Econometric Reviews
• Econometrics Journal
• Empirical Economics
• Environmental and Resource Economics
• European Economic Review
• German Economic Review
• Health Policy
• International Journal of Production Economics
• International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
• Journal of Applied Econometrics
• Journal of Econometrics
• Journal of Productivity Analysis
• Journal of Public Economics
• Resource and Energy Economics
• Review of Industrial Organization
• Scandinavian Journal of Economics
• Statistica Sinica

H. PRESENTATIONS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, ETC.

• Econometric Society Winter Meeting, Geneva, 1974.
• Fourth Econometric Society World Congress, Aix-en-Provence, 1980.
• Research seminar, INSEE/ENSAE, Paris, 1980
• 38th Econometric Society European Meeting, Pisa, 1983.
• LINK Meeting, Stanford University, CA, USA, 1984.
• "Energy prices, technology, and capital obsolescence and retirement", workshop, MIT, Cambridge (MA) USA, 1984.
• Fifth Econometric Society World Congress, Boston, 1985.
• 41st Econometric Society European Meeting, Budapest, 1986.
• "Taxation and Capital Markets", seminar, Helsinki, 1987.
• 43rd Econometric Society European Meeting, Bologna, 1988.
• Sixth Econometric Society World Congress, Barcelona, 1990.
• Fourth International Conference on Panel Data, Paris, 1990.
• 47th Econometric Society European Meeting, Brussels, 1992.
• Sixth International Conference on Panel Data, Paris, 1994.
• Seventh International Conference on Panel Data, Amsterdam, 1996.
• 51st Econometric Society European Meeting, Istanbul, 1996.
• Eighth International Conference on Panel Data (invited lecture), Göteborg, 1998.
• Ninth International Conference on Panel Data, Geneva, 2000.
• Tenth International Conference on Panel Data, Berlin, 2002.
• 57th Econometric Society European Meeting, Venice, 2002.
• Eleventh International Conference on Panel Data, College Station (TX), USA, 2004
• 59th Econometric Society European Meeting, Madrid, 2004.
• "The Economics of Addiction and of Health Inequality" (invited lecture), Conference, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 2005.
• Twelfth International Conference on Panel Data, Copenhagen, 2005.
• Thirteenth International Conference on Panel Data, Cambridge, 2006.
• Workshop on Health Economics, Oslo, 2006.
• 22nd Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, Mexico City, 2006.
• 6th World Congress of Health Economists: Explorations in Health Economics, Copenhagen, 2007.
• Conference on Factor Structures for Panel and Multivariate Time Series Data, Maastricht, 2008.
• Health Econometrics Workshop, Milano, 2008.
• North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Boston, 2009.
• Fifteenth International Conference on Panel Data, Bonn, 2009.
• 64th Econometric Society European Meeting, Barcelona, 2009.
• Workshop on absenteeism and social insurance, Uppsala, 2009.
• Sixteenth International Conference on Panel Data, Amsterdam, 2010
• "The Trygve Haavelmo Centennial Symposium", Oslo, 2011.

I. MEMBERSHIP OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEES

• Ragnar Nymoen. University of Oslo. 1990.
• Jørgen Aasness. University of Oslo. 1990.
• Erik Offerdal. University of Oslo. 1993.
• Sverre C. Kittelsen. University of Oslo. 1995.
• Vidar Hjellvik. University of Bergen. 1997.
• Hilde C. Bjørnland. University of Oslo. 1998.
• Arvid Raknerud. University of Oslo. 1999.
• Torbjørn Hægeland. University of Oslo. 2002.
• Tao Zhang. University of Oslo. 2004.
• Elin Halvorsen. University of Oslo. 2004.
• Daniel Muluwork Atsbeha. Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB). 2012.

J. MEMBERSHIP OF OTHER EXPERT COMMITTEES

• Member of expert committees for professorships at Uppsala University and Aarhus University, and for associate professorships at Stockholm University and University of Bergen.
• Member of expert committees for research fellowships at Statistics Norway, the Central Bank of Norway, and the Frisch Centre.
• Administrator of 8 doctoral dissertation committees at the University of Oslo.
• Member of expert group for company taxation under the Norwegian Tax Commission, 1983-1984.
• Member of the Research Council (Forskningsrådet) of the Central Bank of Norway, 1989-1994.
• Member of the Model Advisory Council (Modellutvalget) of the Norwegian Ministry of Finance, 1982-1990.

K. MEMBERSHIP OF INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• Econometric Society, 1972-.
• European Economic Association (founding member), 1986-.

L. OTHER ACTIVITIES

• Visiting scholar, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE), Paris, autumn 1980.
• Member of the program committee for the Econometric Society European Meeting, Copenhagen, 1987.
• Member of the arrangement committee for Econometric Methodology Conference, Oslo, 2003.
• Sessions chairman and discussant at Econometric Society Meetings. International Panel Data Conferences, Nordic Economists' Meetings, etc.
• Referee/consultant of international book projects.
• Referee of international journals, see section G above.